-- Aug. 11, 2006: Ed Jew files nomination papers to become a candidate for District 4 supervisor. Under the City Charter, Jew must have lived in District 4 for at least 30 days before becoming a candidate and must have continued to live there after being sworn into office.

-- Dec. 5, 2006: Mayor Gavin Newsom appoints Jew to complete the final 34 days of his predecessor Fiona Ma's term as District 4 supervisor. Ma vacated the seat when she was elected to the state Assembly.

-- Jan. 8, 2007: Jew begins the four-year term he won in November.

-- May 18, 2007: FBI agents investigating corruption allegations against Jew execute search warrants at his City Hall office, his flower shop in Chinatown, a house on 28th Avenue in San Francisco that Jew claimed as his residence to run for office, and a house owned by his wife on Roosevelt Avenue in Burlingame. Neighbors of the 28th Avenue house tell The Chronicle that the property had been vacant for years.

-- June 13, 2007: Jew is arrested on nine felony perjury and fraud charges for allegedly lying about where he lived to run for supervisor and vote in local elections. The investigation by District Attorney Kamala Harris - based on neighbor testimony, utility billing records, mail service and other documents - concludes Jew really lived at 2116 Roosevelt Ave. in Burlingame with his wife and daughter.

-- June 18, 2007: City Attorney Dennis Herrera seeks approval from state Attorney General Jerry Brown to sue to have Jew removed from office for failing to meet the residence requirements of the City Charter.

-- July 13, 2007: Herrera submits new evidence to the attorney general, including an application for a credit line increase that Jew submitted on Sept. 15, 2006, in which he listed his address as 2116 Roosevelt Ave., Burlingame.

-- July 30, 2007: County prosecutors present evidence in their perjury and fraud case, including an insurance application Jew submitted in February 2007 saying that his primary residence was 2116 Roosevelt Ave. and that he kept his primary car, a Toyota Prius, garaged at the Burlingame home.

-- Aug. 1, 2007: A San Francisco judge rules there is enough evidence to try Jew on the perjury and fraud charges.

-- Sept. 11, 2007: Jew rejects an offer from county prosecutors to settle the perjury and fraud case by agreeing to plead guilty to a single felony charge and resigning from office. The move sets the stage for the trial to begin Sept. 28.

-- Sept. 19, 2007: After earlier saying his client wanted his day in court as soon as possible, a lawyer for Jew obtains a delay in the start of the trial of at least four weeks. Defense attorney Bill Fazio says he needs more time to prepare.

-- Sept. 20, 2007: Federal prosecutors charge Jew with felony mail fraud in connection with an alleged scheme - carried out between March and May 2007 - to extort money from operators of tapioca drink shops in his district. Jew acknowledges accepting $40,000 in cash on May 7 but claims $20,000 of it was a legitimate fee owed to a consultant to whom he had referred the drink shop operators for help with city permit problems. He says the rest of the money was for charity. But authorities say evidence suggests otherwise, including $10,000 of the $40,000 that was found during the May 18 search of the Burlingame home and secretly recorded conversations between Jew and his alleged victims.

-- Sept. 25, 2007: Mayor Newsom suspends Jew for alleged official misconduct, begins proceedings before the city Ethics Commission to have him removed, and appoints a mayor's office deputy budget director, a 29-year-old political novice named Carmen Chu, to the District 4 seat on the Board of Supervisors.

-- Oct. 18, 2007: California Attorney General Brown gives City Attorney Herrera authorization to file a civil lawsuit to have Jew removed from office for failing to meet City Charter residence requirements.

-- Nov. 6, 2007: A federal grand jury issues a five-count indictment that accuses Jew of trying to shake down Sunset District businesses for $84,000 in bribes. The federal charges - two counts each of bribery and mail fraud and one count of extortion - are the most serious yet leveled. The indictment replaces the single count of mail fraud issued by federal prosecutors on Sept. 21.

-- Dec. 13, 2007: A second attorney for Jew parts ways with the embattled lawmaker, citing "irreconcilable differences" in the legal defense strategy. The lawyer, Steven Gruel, represented Jew in U.S. District Court in the extortion case and in connection with the criminal case and other proceedings accusing Jew of having lied about where he lived.

-- Jan. 10: Jew resigns effective the next day in a deal with the city attorney to bring an end to the civil lawsuit and proceedings before the Ethics Commission over allegations he lied about his true residence. The former supervisor still faces the criminal perjury and fraud charges over his residency claims and the federal charges over the alleged extortion scheme.